Table 1 Frequency and reasons for smoking cigarettes or waterpipe
Question | Category | Cigarette smokers | Waterpipe smokers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Daily | Percent | Irregular | Percent | Heavy | Percent | Light | Percent | ||
Mean duration of smoking | Mean | 15.59 | 7.85 | 8.10 | 6.00 | ||||
SD | 10.95 | 8.38 | 7.80 | 7.27 | |||||
Mean age at smoking initiation | Mean | 19.78 | 22.44 | 20.71 | 22.71 | ||||
SD | 6.76 | 10.16 | 8.32 | 7.94 | |||||
Average number of cigarettes per month | Mean | 24.00 | 6.74 | 32.73 | 4.28 | ||||
SD | 14.27 | 7.72 | 18.39 | 2.79 | |||||
Mean cost of smoking per month | Mean | 66.78 | 19.18 | 32.48 | 16.70 | ||||
SD | 48.08 | 21.84 | 26.81 | 19.67 | |||||
Reason for smoking | Expression of masculinity and femininity | 6 | 2.6 % | 0 | 0.0 % | 1 | 1.7 % | 1 | 0.8 % |
Imitation | 75 | 33.0 % | 10 | 30.3 % | 45 | 77.6 % | 102 | 80.3 % | |
Leisure | 125 | 55.1 % | 22 | 66.7 % | 5 | 8.6 % | 14 | 11.0 % | |
Other | 21 | 9.3 % | 1 | 3.0 % | 7 | 12.1 % | 10 | 7.9 % | |
Time to start smoking after wake-up | 31–60 min | 54 | 21.8 % | 1 | 3.3 % | ||||
6–30 min | 69 | 27.8 % | 3 | 10.0 % | |||||
In 5 min | 70 | 28.2 % | 2 | 6.7 % | |||||
More than 60 min | 49 | 19.8 % | 21 | 70.0 % | |||||
No answer | 6 | 2.4 % | 3 | 10.0 % | |||||